The Kartarpur Corridor has proven to be a bridge between India and Pakistan post partition. It has become a meeting point for several people who got separated in 1947. A similar incident is moving netizens.
It happened so that a brother who is now a Sikh living in India and his sister now a Muslim from Pakistan met at Kartarpur Gurudwara.
The incident was shared by Man Aman Singh Chhina, a journalist based out of Chandigarh who tweeted about siblings who got separated during partition. He wrote that the long separated siblings have finally united through Kartarpur corridor.
Check it out.
One of the biggest advantages of Kartarpur Corridor has been that long separated siblings from 1947 have been able to meet each other.
— Man Aman Singh Chhina (@manaman_chhina) May 16, 2022
Just watched a video of a Indian brother and his Pakistani sister meeting in Kartarpur.
Makes the eyes well up. pic.twitter.com/AY4ZAUQ2yG
Mixed reactions from twitteratti
The post received an array of reactions from internet users. Some users seemed emotional, and some called partition the “biggest blunder” of the 19th century.
Take a look.
Indeed emotional.
Kartarpur goes beyond separated relatives, just watch Vlogs made by average Indian. Heart touching feelings and views during and post visit. We need more people to people contact.— akifsaeed65 (@akifsaeed65) May 16, 2022
Partitioning of punjab was the Biggest political blunder of 19 th century
— Jaskaranvir mander (@manderjassi05) May 17, 2022
Yet another reunion
Such incidents are frequented in Kartarpur. In January 2022, a video of the tearful reunion, showing the elderly brothers, one from India and another from Pakistan, hugging each other at the Corridor went viral.
Emotions run high and tears wouldn’t stop from the eyes of septuagenarian brothers who were divided during Indo Pak partition but reunited at Kartarpur Sahib after 74 years.
— Ravinder Singh Robin ਰਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ رویندرسنگھ روبن (@rsrobin1) January 12, 2022
While keeping aside their bilateral differences India Pakistan have opened #KartarpurCorridor onNov 9,2019 pic.twitter.com/oIO1cSspcM
It was Punjabi Lehr, a Pakistan-based YouTube channel that brought together two brothers separated by Partition after 74 years and got many a little teary-eyed. They have reunited over 200 friends and families across the border.
The meeting of 84-year-old Saddique Khan from Pakistan’s Punjab and his brother from Indian Punjab, Habib alias Sikka Khan, lasted more than an hour before the brothers returned to their respective homes.
About Kartarpur Corridor
The Kartarpur Corridor is a visa-free border crossing and religious corridor, connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan to Gurudwara Dera Baba Nanak in India. The crossing allows devotees from India to visit the gurudwara in Kartarpur, 4.7 kilometres from the India–Pakistan border on the Pakistani side without a visa. However, Pakistani Sikhs are unable to use the border crossing, and cannot access Dera Baba Nanak on the Indian side without first obtaining an Indian visa or unless they have permit to work there.